¡¡What a day!! The first hour of my morning was like any other morning but the second hour brought a mountain of stress which I thought was going to crush me. First I’m already at maximum stress level because I have a team coming on 1 August and things are still up in the air on a lot of it; then on 1 August, as well, I will have no roommates; and on 24 July I have to go to Nicaragua again to renew my visa and am trying to prepare three weeks worth of lessons for two cabins along with the lessons I must teach next week. Wow I’m just stressed out by typing all that.
So back to the second hour of today. I needed a Pepsi badly, I’m trying to quit (again) and so I only had my debit card and so I used it, or tried to. Back up to last night. I went and bought a birthday gift for one of my girls here and used my card without any problem. Five minutes later I tried to use it at McD’s but it wouldn’t work. I’d thought it strange but whatever. Well today my card would not work again. Now this was really strange. I went to the ATM and it worked, but I thought the screen told me I had no money in my account, the screen was very blurry so I couldn’t really tell you what it said. Yet, it let me have money.
This created panic in me. Did someone steal my number, again? Did my bank cancel my card without telling me? What is going on? Last time this happened it took me almost 2 months to get my card mailed to me here which meant I had no access to money for that whole time! This was killing me. How was I going to go to Nicaragua? How was anything going to happen?
I went up in the van to work and everyone knew something was very wrong with me. It just so happened that,(God),two of the girls had doctor appointments and the van was going back down and would later return to work. So I asked my boss if I could go back down and try to solve the issue.
When I looked at my account, everything was at it should be and so I was very confused. I called the back and they told me they hadn’t received any notice of my card being denied so it had to be on this end of things. She thinks my card strip is just getting worn out. But in the process of us talking she asked me if a week ago I attempted to by airline tickets with delta for an amount over $2500. Uhhh, NO! Thankfully it was denied, because I don’t have near that type of money in my account. She was able to find out that it had been manually put in, which means through the internet, which means Someone has my number!
We had to cancel my card as quickly as possible before they could do some damage to me. She gave me an hour to go to the ATM and get out the money I would need until I could get my card before she would cancel my card. Again it just so happens that,(God), I have a team coming down on 1 August. I asked her if she could send it to the leader of the team and she said she couldn’t because I don’t live there and it would be sent back. But what she would do is have it sent to her, by next Wednesday, and then she would put it in another envelope and send it to the leader of the team who will get it just in the nick of time to bring it to me! Praise God!
God used my card not working to bring to light that someone has my number and has tried to use it. I’m glad to see He was protecting me of something major from happening. Next time I hope He does it with a little less stress being involved.
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